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The dinner-gong sounded, and the girls went down to their midday meal. Carrie soon perceived that Elma was in real trouble. With all her low, idle, careless, and unprincipled ways, at the bottom of her heart she was fond of her sister. She made up her mind to visit Sam Raynes that evening and get him to return the money. "Poor old Elma," she said to herself. "I don't want to be too hard on her.
"Don't be foolish, Cecil," she said. "Remember that we are all here, and that nothing can go wrong unless we lose our nerve." Forrest found the Princess alone a little later in the evening, waiting in the hall for the dinner-gong. "Ena," he said, "I suppose that you trust Cecil de la Borne? You haven't any fear about him, eh?" The Princess shrugged her shoulders. "No!" she answered.
If thoughts can purify, Millicent's heart should have been as fair as a white lotus flower whose roots are in the mud. Michael's thoughts had baptized it. When she had tidied up and was beautifully fresh in her snow-white muslin frock, she went outside and waited for the dinner-gong to sound.
He stood on the sleeping-porch and did his day's exercises: arms out sidewise for two minutes, up for two minutes, while he muttered, "Ought take more exercise; keep in shape;" then went in to see whether his collar needed changing before dinner. As usual it apparently did not. The Lettish-Croat maid, a powerful woman, beat the dinner-gong.
After all had drunk their fill they lay down on the nearest bank till late afternoon. Then their unheard dinner-gong aroused them, and started them on the backward march to where the richest pastures grew. One or two small birds had picked at the scraps of meat, some blue-bottle flies buzzed about, but the sinking sun saw the sandy mask untouched.
"How nice he looks!" thought the girl; "it would be possible for me to like him even as much as Mrs. Aylmer fears, but I will not show my hand at present. What does this fresh combination mean? I wonder who the girl is who is to be brought to Aylmer's Court on purpose to be wooed by Maurice Trevor." The dinner-gong sounded, and soon Mrs. Aylmer, Trevor, and Bertha sat around the board.
They were nearing the house, when, emerging upon a clearing, they came to a rustic bench looking across a short field lined with shrubbery. 'Let us sit down a minute, she said. 'We can hear the dinner-gong from here. He took his seat beside her, and dreamily watched the yellow rays of the sun casting their receding tints along the bushes opposite them.
Well, I don't care. I won't put up with this unjust punishment." The dinner-gong sounded, and Pauline, notwithstanding her state of disgrace, discovered that she was hungry. "Why should I eat?" she said to herself. "I won't eat. Then perhaps I'll die, and she'll be sorry. She'll be had up for manslaughter; she'll have starved a girl to death. No, I won't eat a single thing.
He was restless, and unable to sleep off his fatigue in that placid slumber of childhood which brings healing with its rythmical ebb and flow. The dinner-gong sounded, and Brian was still missing, but at half-past eight he came in, and walked straight to the drawing-room, where Ida was sitting alone. Neither she nor her stepmother had sat down to dinner.
O Lord, there's our kettle gone!" With a boom like a dinner-gong a Remington bullet had passed through the kettle, and a cloud of steam hissed up from the fire. A wild shout came from the rocks above. "The idiots think that they have blown us up. They'll rush us now, as sure as fate; then it will be our turn to lead. Got your revolver, Anerley?" "I have this double-barrelled fowling-piece."
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